Testimony of Healing August 7, 1926 Issue

Sixteen years ago I became interested in Christian Science

Katherine Schleiffer

Sixteen years ago I became interested in Christian Science. It was quite different from anything I had heard of before. I then began to study Christian Science literature, although it was difficult for me, as I did not know the English language. Soon I witnessed some beautiful healings, which made a great impression on me, and I was eager to learn to understand the Principle of this practical religion.

It was two years after this when I had the opportunity of proving for myself the saving power of Christian Science. While staying with some friends in the Caucasus I was riding horseback one day, when my horse ran away for several miles across the steppes, and it was not in my power to stop it. I felt I should apply such knowledge of Christian Science as I had, and so began to repeat the first verses of the ninetyfirst psalm. Immediately all fear left me, and I felt myself quite safe "under the shadow of the Almighty." Suddenly my horse stumbled, and I fell from it, but in falling the thought came to me that God was my Life. Immediately I got up, feeling quite well; but the servant who came up to me a few minutes later noticed some blood on my dress, and I found I had wounded my head. At home I seemed surrounded by false thoughts and fears, and I began to feel faint; so the wound was dressed, and I was put to bed with a high fever. I, however, asked to be left alone; and as we had been invited out for the evening, everybody left the house, except the servant and myself. Then I got up, took my Science books, and went into the garden, where I had a quiet and happy hour in which to make my first demonstration. All discomfort and fever disappeared; I slept well through the night, and the next morning the wound was healed. I am very thankful for this healing, because it taught me that even a small understanding of Truth is sufficient to help and to heal, and also because it was the beginning of further demonstrations.

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